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The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have…The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have…
The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In Objective Revelation we have to consider, I. The Efficient cause, viz. 1. Principal which is God. 1, As the Author or first Cause of Nature, 2. As the Cause of Gracious extraordinary Light. II. Subservient. I. Persons. 1. Christ as man; the Teacher of the Church and Messenger of God. 2. His Ministers. 1. Angels. 2. Men. 1. Public. 1. Parents Economical. 2. Ecclesiastical. 1. Inspired. 2. Instructed. 3. Magistrates. 2. Private: Neighbours and Friends. II. Things: Considered I. Singly. 1. In the matter, and so they are 1. Signs Natural, viz. All Gods works. 2. Signs Artificial, viz. Writings, &c. 3. Signs Mixed, viz. Vocal Words. 2. In the manner of causing them 1. Naturally, as the works and Law of Nature. 2. Supernaturally, and extraordinarily. II. Conjunct and duly ordered; as they make up just evidence. Viz. 1. Things in their notifying conditions. 2. Words; 1. Simple Terms, 2. Propositions, 3. Discourses ⟨image 12⟩II. The Matter of Divine Revelations signified (for the Matter signifying is before spoken of) is, I. Beings substantial 1. Created, 2. The Creator. II. The Modes or Accidents of Beings substantial, which are, 1. Physical and Hyperphysical. 2. Moral: Especially, 1. Truth, 2. Right or Dueness, 3. Goodness. And reductively and by accident, All their contraries. III. The form of Revelation, is Evidence, or the Notifying Aptitude which includeth, 1. The Sense or Meaning as True: 2. As Perceptible. IV. The Terminus and Ends of Revelation (to join them for brevity) are, 1. The sense and its Perception, 1. External, 2. Internal; the Imagination. 2. The higher faculties 1. The Intellect and its perception. 2. The Will and its Complacency or Displicence.
In Objective Revelation we have to consider, I. The Efficient cause, viz. 1. Principall which is God. 1, As the Author or first Cause of Nature, 2. As the Cause of Gratious extraordinary Light. II. Subservient. I. Persons. 1. Christ as man; the Teacher of the Church and Messenger of God. 2. His Ministers. 1. Angels. 2. Men. 1. Publick. 1. Parents Oeconomical. 2. Ecclesiastical. 1. Inspired. 2. Instructed. 3. Magistrates. 2. Private: Neighbours and Friends. II. Things: Considered I. Singly. 1. In the matter, and so they are 1. Signs Natural, viz. All Gods works. 2. Signs Artificial, viz. Writings, &c. 3. Signs Mixt, viz. Vocal Words. 2. In the manner of causing them 1. Naturally, as the works and Law of Nature. 2. Supernaturally, and extraordinarily. II. Conjunct and duly ordered; as they make up just evidence. Viz. 1. Things in their notifying conditions. 2. Words; 1. Simple Terms, 2. Propositions, 3. Discourses